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To: E. Charters who wrote (83404)	3/18/2002 7:24:33 AM
From: Richnorth	Respond to of 117095

I see what you mean by reflectors betraying a shooter's position. But certainly they could have been used to decoy an opposing sniper's attention away thereby giving his well-hidden killer a clear/clearer shot. The story of Zaitsev had it that he and his German counterpart stalked each other for about two weeks with neither one of them able to get a clear shot at the other. It seemed that when the German sniper finally succeeded in maneuvering Zaitsev to face the setting sun so that he would be better able to locate Zaitsev's position, reflectors were used to distract/confuse the German sniper. And that was when the German champion got shot right between the eyes! I did not get this story from a Russian propaganda source but from an American magazine about guns in general about 20 years ago. According to that magazine, German snipers were promoted from Crow (the lowest) to Eagle (the highest) class according to the number of kills they scored. I have forgotten what other intermediate rankings there were. Ranking was indicated by the bird insignia on the armbands of the sniper's uniform. BTW, the Russian rifle I referred to was the redesigned Moisin-Nagant rifle which one Russian veteran told me was the Russian soldier's "dream" rifle during WWII. He said that the earlier rifle was inaccurate, too liable to jam, and was not bayonet-mountable.